Religion During the Russian Ukrainian Conflict

Elizabeth A. Clark is the Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.Dmytro Vovk is an Associate Professor and Director for the Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

• 1. Introduction, Elizabeth A. Clark and Dmytro Vovk Part 1. Religion, politics and law. 2. Civil religion and religious freedom in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Elizabeth A. Clark 3. Dynamics of church-state relations in Ukraine and the military conflict with Russia: Political and legal aspects, Dmytro Vovk 4. Come all ye faithful to the Russian World: Governmental and grass-roots spiritual discourse in the battle over Ukraine, Elizaveta Gaufman 5. Alternative spiritualities in Russia during the conflict in Ukraine, Stanislav Panin 6. The United States International Religious Freedom Act, nonstate actors, and the Donbas crisis, Robert C. Blitt Part 2. Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on religious public life and communities. 7. Ukrainian churches and civil society in the Euromaidan and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A sociological analysis, Viktor Stepanenko 8. A spatial analysis of religious diversity and freedom in Ukraine after the Euromaidan, Tymofiy Brik and Stanislav Korolkov 9. Changes to religious life in Crimea since 2014, Roman Lunkin Part 3. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict and inter-Orthodox relations. 10. History, ecclesiology, canonicity, and power: Ukrainian and Russian Orthodoxy after the Euromaidan, Jerry G. Pankhurst 11. The cause of Ukrainian autocephaly, Cyril Hovorun 12. Equivocal memory: What does the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate remember? Andriy Fert Part 4. Interviews. 13. "The Orthodox identification of militants is an element of their understanding of the Russkiy mir": Interview with Dr. Ihor Kozlovsky. 14. "The militants used the Bibles to keep fires going and to cook food": Interview with Rev. Dr. Vitaly Sorokun. 15. Persecutions of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia: Interview with Maria Kravchenko. Index

The book is a much-needed English introduction to a thorny set of religious, political, juridical, and related problems concerning the Eastern Ukrainian conflict. TEUVO LAITILA, Journal of Contemporary Religion